dynamic structured data in profile

[ahdinosaur]

this way, users can update a person or group profile to contain anything they wish:

• contact details
  • email addresses
  • phone numbers
• postal addresses
• website links

without needing us to develop special support for these types of profile information.

~this ticket is to update the Profile component to use a wysiwyg editor, which will save the "description" property as either html or markdown, which will be rendered as such when viewing. note: we must sanitize user input here, to protect against cross-site scripting attacks if we allow malicious html or markdown.~

[danalexilewis]

Could we use a similar system to what we were doing for follow the sun where people create fields?

Going this way will we be able to extract info like address for invoices?

[ahdinosaur]

Going this way will we be able to extract info like address for invoices?

good point. was hoping this would reduce scope for MVP.

Could we use a similar system to what we were doing for follow the sun where people create fields?

yes. we probably should give this some thought.

[danalexilewis]

++ for reducing scope -- for adding significant technical debt ;) if this is cheap to change later maybe a wysiwyg - so long as the wysiwyg is a quick implantation.

Good thinking!

[ahdinosaur]

my thoughts on a structured profile data approach:

• data has a "type" / "format"
  • phone number
  • email address
  • websites
  • postal address
• most data has a "context" / "label"
  • work
  • home

then while creating an invoice, you would choose which address and phone number is appropriate.

[ahdinosaur]

also this came up in https://github.com/root-systems/cobuy/pull/140,

looked at adding more fields to the Profile for a Person, but decided in consultation with @ahdinosaur that it'd be good to have deliberate design on which fields make sense before developing

[ahdinosaur]

maybe https://github.com/sstur/react-rte to edit and save markdown?

[Julietbc]

after doing some initial work to integrate this and it becoming overly complicated I have discussed with @iainkirkpatrick and decided, for now(late oct demo), to just add some new fields for email, address etc rather than a full on wysiwyg editor

[ahdinosaur]

hey @Julietbc , what did you find complicated about the wysiwyg editor?

[iainkirkpatrick]

gonna whack this back into backlog cause the ticket as per the description wasn't completed, instead the alternative (and we aren't counting points or anything ;) )